I have two WP subdirectories off of a Joomla domain. The Joomla load time is ok. However, the WPs are so so sooooo slow. The back end is slow too. I have w3 cache installed on both and I've copied the settings from some great resources, but they are still slow! Could someone please take a look?

I took a quick peek, and the sites loaded quickly for me. Try the usual WP debugging stuff first -- disable all plugins and re-enable them one at a time, to see if one of them is causing the slowdown; try using a default WP theme (Twenty Eleven/Twelve/Thirteen) to see if your theme is the culprit. It'll help narrow down the potential scope of your problem.
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Pat JSep 9 '13 at 19:28

I'm pretty sure the theme is the culprit on Howl 2-Go, but idk about the blog... The thing is I don't have time to do a redesign. We're about to redesign the entire site over the winter so I just want to bring this site up to speed for the time being if I can. Check out these two PHP files, is there anything I can do about this: gtmetrix.com/reports/www.howlatthemoon.com/…
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stephmSep 9 '13 at 19:33

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sam as Pat, I see < 1 second loading time on both of those links. the 2nd has some javascript errors you should probably fix, but that's unrelated. do you see a difference if you're logged in versus not logged in? cacheing may be disabled for logged in visitors.
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MiloSep 9 '13 at 19:35